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Saving Old Books to Save the Truth.

Posted on 04/26/2010 6:44:59 PM PDT by cradle of freedom

As the truth and history are being rewritten by the forces of politcal correctness, it would be a good idea for us to look for old books printed before the advent of political correctness. As time goes on it will be harder to find out the truth about anything that the left does not want us to know. I think it would be a good idea for us to purchase good old books - amazon has many old books at very low prices. Sometimes libraries sell old books, this would also be a good opportunity to save the truth from being lost to future generations. I hope that conservative publishers start reprinting some of these valuable books that tell us the truth rather than the leftist propaganda that is all too common today.


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1 posted on 04/26/2010 6:44:59 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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Yes indeed, very, very important point. I think Star Trek once had a show in which an old book was the means of restoring a lost history.
Treasure old books, particularly history books, and cultural books. Commies want to destroy truth, and truthful history so as to more easily oppress people.
2 posted on 04/26/2010 6:50:36 PM PDT by J Edgar
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I use to have a pre-WW2 history book and it had some amazin stuff in it. It described how they bought slaves from Africans instead of catching them themselves.

Something that might get mentioned in passing once in 12 years of educations and never repeated.


3 posted on 04/26/2010 6:51:57 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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it would be a good idea for us to look for old books printed before the advent of political correctness

OMG! I recently re-read an old book from my library, "Always Coming Home" by Ursula K. LeGuin; a very skilled and award-winning if quite-liberal author. In the future world (written in the mid-70s) she projects there is the issue of what to do with all the written works people produce, and her answer is that even with computer storage (again rather limited in the 70s) the answer was to destroy some works to make room for others.

That there could be a political element to the preservation / destruction question was not addressed there... but here it is.

Ugh.

4 posted on 04/26/2010 6:52:01 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: cradle of freedom

I didn’t know Amazon sold old books! There’s a site called alibris where I get a lot of old books.


5 posted on 04/26/2010 6:52:06 PM PDT by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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I have collected a few that I bet we won’t be able to get in a few years. Like Animal Farm and 1984. Dick and Jane books, maybe we could start a list?


6 posted on 04/26/2010 6:52:17 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady (.)
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To: Cailleach

ping


7 posted on 04/26/2010 6:52:53 PM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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“The Order of St. Liebowitz” (save old books!)

(readers of ‘A Canticle for Liebowitz’ will catch the reference...)


8 posted on 04/26/2010 6:57:26 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: cradle of freedom

I think you have hit upon something that is very important, and it is something postive that each of us can do. We can all become librarians and preserve knowledge and culture against the onslaught.

Our Evanescent Culture And the Awesome Duty of Librarians

http://heinberg.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/209-our-evanescent-culture-and-the-awesome-duty-of-librarians/


9 posted on 04/26/2010 7:01:11 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: cradle of freedom
Gutenberg.org has tons of free ebooks, too.

I was reading one from Cambridge written in the early 1900 that said the main role of an educator was to 'weed-out' those unsuitable for higher education.

Imagine that....not thinking everyone was a candidate for college.

10 posted on 04/26/2010 7:01:42 PM PDT by MamaTexan (I am not a administrative, corporate, collective, legal, political or public entity or ~person~)
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Canticle is one of the books I would definitely save. We have two copies.

I have long been a “book saver”. Library sales, old book stores, auctions, I have a house that is packed with books. So amny books sometimes I forget what I have and buy another copy. LOL We have 2 copies of Canticle because 2 members of the family were reading it at the same time.


11 posted on 04/26/2010 7:06:57 PM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: cradle of freedom

good point.


12 posted on 04/26/2010 7:10:23 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (If the right has TEABAGGERS, then the left has SCUMBAGGERS and DOUCHEBAGGERS!!!)
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I have about 10,000 volumes and I realize that I will never be able to afford the space to put them on shelves, these are real books, not Stephen King and science fiction stuff.

I would read and pack them away for some distant future but now I just can’t see ever being able to really use them again, I don’t know what I’m going to do with them. I could sell them on E-Bay but I don’t like the world of selling used stuff, and all the mechanics and effort of it.


13 posted on 04/26/2010 7:14:38 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney-"I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there")
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To: cradle of freedom
I search for old books at garage sales, or we have some book stores that specialize in the old books, I like to go there.

Mostly I want History and geography books, BIO's, government history, anything on these lines I will collect. Anything on Geo. WAshington, Jefferson, Adams, etc.

14 posted on 04/26/2010 7:16:42 PM PDT by annieokie
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‘A Canticle for Liebowitz’

My library copy of that should be coming up within a couple of weeks, people are still checking it out enough that there was a little waiting list for it.

15 posted on 04/26/2010 7:17:19 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney-"I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there")
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To: cradle of freedom

thats my specialty ,in a small way,to home school my daughter,for my own enlightenment,and to sell on ebay,,,I love old books,never read a book unless its ten yrs old or older,there’s so much history lost and truth twisted in today’s world.


16 posted on 04/26/2010 7:18:38 PM PDT by coalman (survived carter ,disco and clinton,just holding on till 2012)
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To: kalee

I’d like to get Canticle for Leibowitz


17 posted on 04/26/2010 7:21:31 PM PDT by BenKenobi
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To: cradle of freedom

You can find some real gems @ thrift stores, and the price is usually under a buck. I found a an Aug 1938 Luftpost brochure in a 1951 German Nav Book.

You just never know what will be between the pages, literally and figuratively.


18 posted on 04/26/2010 7:22:12 PM PDT by NCCarrs (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/30/quake.usa.editorial.reut/index.html)
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google BANCROFTS HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

It is online, too,a google book

George Bancroft


19 posted on 04/26/2010 7:23:48 PM PDT by RaceBannon (RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
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For the past 15 years, I have been collecting old American History books along with some world history. I’ve been fortunate to find some from the 1800’s, including a two volume set from 1882 - Pictorial History of the World’s Great Nations and an 1859 two volume set The Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution (American Revolution). They are fascinating to read.


20 posted on 04/26/2010 7:24:17 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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